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The European Hematology Association Roadmap for European Hematology Research: a consensus document

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Title:The European Hematology Association Roadmap for European Hematology Research: a consensus document
Creators Name:Engert, A. and Balduini, C. and Brand, A. and Coiffier, B. and Cordonnier, C. and Doehner, H. and Duyvene' de Wit, T. and Eichinger, S. and Fibbe, W. and Green, T. and de Haas, F. and Iolascon, A. and Jaffredo, T. and Rodeghiero, F. and Salles, G. and Schuringa, J.J.
Abstract:The European Hematology Association (EHA) Roadmap for European Hematology Research highlights major achievements in diagnosis and treatment of blood disorders and identifies the greatest unmet clinical and scientific needs in those areas to enable better funded, more focused European hematology research. Initiated by the EHA, around 300 experts contributed to the consensus document, which will help European policy makers, research funders, research organizations, researchers, and patient groups make better informed decisions on hematology research. It also aims to raise public awareness of the burden of blood disorders on European society, which purely in economic terms is estimated at Euro 23 billion per year, a level of cost that is not matched in current European hematology research funding. In recent decades, hematology research has improved our fundamental understanding of the biology of blood disorders, and has improved diagnostics and treatments, sometimes in revolutionary ways. This progress highlights the potential of focused basic research programs such as this EHA Roadmap. The EHA Roadmap identifies nine sections in hematology: normal hematopoiesis, malignant lymphoid and myeloid diseases, anemias and related diseases, platelet disorders, blood coagulation and hemostatic disorders, transfusion medicine, infections in hematology, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. These sections span 60 smaller groups of diseases or disorders. The EHA Roadmap identifies priorities and needs across the field of hematology, including those to develop targeted therapies based on genomic profiling and chemical biology, to eradicate minimal residual malignant disease, and to develop cellular immunotherapies, combination treatments, gene therapies, hematopoietic stem cell treatments, and treatments that are better tolerated by elderly patients.
Keywords:Antineoplastic Agents, Blood Coagulation, Combined Modality Therapy, Consensus, Europe, Gene Expression Profiling, Genetic Therapy, Health Services for the Aged, Hematologic Diseases, Hematology, Hematopoiesis, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Human Genome, Molecular Targeted Therapy
Source:Haematologica
ISSN:0390-6078
Publisher:Ferrata Storti Foundation
Volume:101
Number:2
Page Range:115-208
Date:February 2016
Additional Information:Stephan Mathas is an author of the EHA Roadmap for European Hematology Research
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2015.136739
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